Clickability blog
Guides, advice and stories about the NDIS
Practical NDIS articles for participants, families and support coordinators — choosing providers, understanding your plan and getting the most from your supports.
Clickability · Company news
- Clickability’s 2025 marketing role: a historical recruitment notice
- Find a Carer and Clickability: the acquisition announcement
- Clicka Awards 2024: sport, representation and NDIS changes
- Clickability at the Brisbane Disability Connections Expo
- Clicka Awards 2023: representation, access and the NDIS Review
- Clickability and HICAPS: the partnership announcement
- Clickability’s 2022 highlights: disability representation
- Clickability’s 2021 highlights: disability stories and choice
- Clickability’s lockdown vlog: an interview archive
- Clickability’s 2019 awards: reviews and community milestones
- Clicka Awards 2018: a historical community celebration
- Clickability’s ACT expansion: a historical grant announcement
- Social work and technology: a historical Clickability perspective
- Disability services and purpose: a founder’s perspective
- For-profit or for-purpose: Clickability’s founding reflection
Clickability · Participant updates
- Building digital confidence: Clickability’s iPad giveaway story
- Clickability service requests: a communication update
- Finding NDIS support for an adult child: one family’s experience
- Clickability participant webinars: the original series invitation
- Clickability service requests: prepare and compare providers
- Finding NDIS providers through Clickability: Lauren’s experience
- Sharing Clickability: help someone explore NDIS providers
- Clickability’s 2020 platform launch: features in historical context
- Disability news from July 2020: language access and representation
- Reviewing disability services: sharing useful feedback
- Accessible reviews: Clickability’s historical postal pilot
Clickability · Provider updates
Finding and using services · Choosing and reviewing providers
- Choosing an NDIS Provider: How to Compare Similar Options
- Finding NDIS providers near you: compare access, services and fit
- Questions to ask an NDIS provider before choosing support
- Choosing support workers: look for trust, consistency and choice
- Finding disability support: questions to ask before you choose
- Choosing an NDIS provider whose values match yours
- Find NDIS providers: when to use an LAC, coordinator or Clickability
- Unregistered NDIS providers: choice, exceptions and getting paid
- Choosing an NDIS provider: what expertise should mean
- How to find NDIS service providers and start support
- Provider reviews and impartiality: share useful experience
- How to write a useful NDIS provider review
- Regional NDIS information: lessons from the PossABLE Expo
- Independent support workers and online platforms: what to check before choosing
- Disability-service waiting lists: questions worth asking
- Why honest NDIS provider reviews matter
- Choosing a provider as a family: communication and boundaries
- Choosing disability providers: a carer’s early NDIS perspective
Finding and using services · Service agreements and consumer costs
Finding and using services · Support coordination and recovery coaching
- NDIS support coordination: turn advice into practical next steps
- Support coordinators near you: compare practical service fit
- Support coordination in practice: questions about your plan
- What is a psychosocial recovery coach? Support and choice
- What to expect from NDIS support coordination over your plan
- Support coordination eligibility: explain the help you need
- Coordinating a child’s support team: a coaching perspective
- Supporting choice during NDIS change: an OT’s perspective
Home and community life · Education and employment
- Employment for people with intellectual disability: meaningful jobs and support
- Early childhood intervention: preparing for school with your child
- Choosing a tutor for a child with learning difficulties
- Disability employment: choosing work and practical support
- Disability and education access: what a support worker learnt on campus
- Inclusive education and disability: Jamie-Lee’s reflection
- Life after school: a specialist teacher’s perspective
- Autism and meaningful work: one employer’s learning experience
- Finding work with support: Clive’s employment story
- Inclusive employment after COVID-19: access beyond working from home
- Learning at home with disability: routines, visuals and school contact
- Disability employment resources: update your starting points
- School leaver employment support: choosing mentoring
- Children’s learning support: dyslexia, ADHD and school adjustments
- Disability job interviews: discussing tasks and access
- Finding work with disability: support and adjustments
- Inclusive play for children with disability: interests and connection
- What is Inclusive Employment Australia? The DES transition
- Workplace coping strategies: an anonymous personal account
- Tutoring for children with additional needs: questions for families
- Employing people with disability: practical inclusion
- Disability inclusion at work: diversity beyond assimilation
- Disabled support workers: Sam Connor’s employment story
- Assistive technology and work: Marlena’s journalism story
- University accessibility: when a useful room is hard to enter
- Choosing an inclusive kindergarten for a child with disability
- Autism and employment: a personal journey into work
- University disability support: Jo’s advice on finding your path into study
- Disability and employment: Craig Ryan’s working life
- Studying abroad with disability: Johanna’s experience
- Disability at work: access, credibility and fair recognition
Home and community life · Housing and independent living
- SDA vs SIL vs ILO: Compare NDIS Housing and Support
- Individualised living options: explore an ILO arrangement that suits you
- Specialist disability accommodation: one participant’s story
- SDA housing and friendship: one shared-home story
- Find accessible housing: start with your needs and support plan
- SDA and future support: Kerry and Steven’s family story
- NDIS and residential aged care: fees, support and choices
- Disability housing history: choice, inclusion and current options
- What is supported independent living? Support and housing
- Moving out with disability: Nathan’s experience of change
- Moving towards independent living: plan your home and support
- Intellectual disability and home ownership: barriers to examine
- Living in the community: challenging disability assumptions
- Sharing a supported home: Kat’s perspective on moving in
- Moving in with a partner: Todd’s supported-housing story
- Young people in aged care: Ki’s housing story
Home and community life · Travel, transport and community
- Social gaming and disability: questions about connection and safety
- Australian Paralympians at Paris 2024: an athlete retrospective
- Paris 2024 Paralympics: a historical guide to the sports
- Accessible travel in Ireland: attractions and booking questions
- Flying with a Powerchair: Practical Lessons from an Ireland Trip
- Accessible holidays in Ireland: planning flights and accommodation
- School holiday activities for children with disability: planning for access and support
- Accessible Gold Coast holidays: Darcy’s personal guide
- Travel training NDIS: planning a route and the support you need
- Accessible holiday ideas in Australia: checking the details
- NDIS driving lessons: specialised support and licence checks
- Martial arts and disability: a historical Jeet Kune Do account
- Returning to powerchair football: Chris’s experience
- Accessible travel in Australia: ideas and checks before you go
- Wheelchair travel in Indonesia: Anthony’s original adventure
- Accessible online activities: Able Australia’s Zoom baking story
- Powerchair football: belonging beyond the game
- Inclusive drama classes: creativity, choice and participation
- Airlines and disability access: assistance questions before booking
- Christmas and autism: choosing a holiday that suits you
- Community access and wellbeing: planning an accessible outing
- Wheelchair travel in the US: Todd and Kat’s honeymoon
- NDIS sport support: separate participation help from fees
- Accessible NDIS transport: booking, safety and choice
- Things to do in Manuka: a historical access guide
- Canberra coffee stops: Megan’s access-focused favourites
- Accessible Canberra sightseeing: updating a local’s route
- Travelling independently with NDIS support: Stacey’s story
- Ability Fest 2018: a participant’s accessibility review
- Autistic family outings: planning around different needs
- Wheelchair travel in Europe: experiences and access checks
- Disability sport and recreation: finding an activity that fits
- Accessible event tickets: questions for fans and organisers
- Accessible holiday planning: checking accommodation and support
- Travelling overseas with disability: Todd’s honeymoon planning
- Accessible travel tips: planning support, equipment and accommodation
- Trying new activities with disability: Andrew’s experience
- Accessible filmmaking: a historical Movie Makers story
- Accessible tourism: useful details for travellers and businesses
- Wheelchair travel and peer reviews: Susie’s experience
- Community participation: more than the same outing
- MC Wheels: music, ambition and a performer’s own story
- Accessible tourism in South Africa: Karen’s visitor experience
- Paralympic media coverage: revisiting the Rio 2016 argument
- Community connections: belonging and practical support
- Accessible holiday accommodation: check the details you need
- Powerchair football and overseas travel: Chris’s team experience
- Accessible travel goals: making room for possibility
- Powerchair sport: belonging, competition and a place to play
- Art and disability: Dean’s creative participation story
Rights and wellbeing · Identity and lived experience
- LGBTQIA+ disability support: respect, privacy and provider choice
- Disability representation: Isabella’s response to The Witches
- Living with cerebral palsy: Phin Meere on assumptions
- Autism, gender diversity and respect across communities
- Visible and invisible mental illness: Monica’s perspective
- Life with a prosthetic limb: Amy’s amputee experience
- Unsolicited health advice: setting boundaries with others
- Invisible disability and social effort: an anonymous account
- Disability identity and difference: making space for change
- Living with absence seizures: Freya’s personal account
- Disability inclusion: belonging without proving your worth
- Living with epilepsy and finding purpose: Lesley’s account
- Understanding an autism diagnosis: an anonymous personal account
- Disability identity: a personal view of ordinary life
- Acquired disability and identity: one person’s reflection
- Disability representation: beyond charity and superhuman stories
- Disability, beauty and personal style: Emma’s perspective
Rights and wellbeing · Relationships, family and carer life
- Autism parenting: recognise progress that matters to your child
- A family’s NDIS journey: advocacy, change and reliable support
- A mother and daughter’s advocacy story: Alana’s reflection
- Love and disability: relationships without assumptions
- Carer burnout: recognising strain and finding practical support
- Parent support groups: connection for families of disabled children
- Parenting with serious illness: support for daily family life
- Disability and sexuality education: a historical event guide
- Explaining a child’s diagnosis to siblings: family conversations
- Sibling relationships and care: choose words and boundaries together
- Disability and sexuality: learning from the SexED Up Expo
- Difficult conversations about disability: an inclusion perspective
- Advocating for a child’s diagnosis: Alani’s family story
- Disability and dating: Mark’s story of connection and confidence
- Disability, intimacy and the conversations we avoid
- LGBTIQA+ disability inclusion: equal rights and belonging
- Neighbour support and disability: asking for help on your terms
- Disability, masturbation and personal privacy
- Disability and sexuality: making space for a private conversation
Rights and wellbeing · Rights, advocacy and choice
- NDIS public debate: stories, evidence and the fraud narrative
- Judy Heumann: disability rights, advocacy and her legacy
- Disability inclusion: looking beyond wants and needs
- Disability advocates: voices highlighted in the 2019 archive
- Spinal cord injury and being heard: Anne’s hospital account
- NDIS participant rights: choice, information and complaints
- How to Advocate for a Loved One Without Taking Over
- NDIS self-direction: build support around your own priorities
- Disability rights: seeing the person and removing barriers
- Disability support and everyday choice: needs, wants and late nights
- Family-carer advocacy: Rachel and Emily’s experience
- Wheelchair use and driving assessment: Jo’s licence experience
- NDIS and the horse whisperer: Sam Connor’s media critique
- Disability co-design: Sam Connor’s digital project experience
- Disability, vulnerability and the right to choose
- Disability complaints in Victoria: choose the right pathway
- Wheelchair access and belonging: an ice-skating experience
- Self-direction and disability: making your own decisions
- Meaningful choice: information, support and decisions
Rights and wellbeing · Safety and emergencies
- NDIS Emergency Planning: Protect Your Safety and Keep Support Going
- Melbourne Stage 4 restrictions: a 2020 disability-support archive
- COVID-19 and disability: reading a historical resource safely
- Bourke Street 2017: a historical mental-health commentary
- Reporting abuse in disability services: speaking up safely
Rights and wellbeing · Wellbeing and peer support
- Wellbeing on difficult days: a lockdown-era perspective
- Living with SMA: Rachel’s risdiplam experience
- Fear after a fall: a personal disability perspective
- Little wins and disability: finding your own pace
- Managing stress: everyday options and when to seek help
- Positive mindset and disability: ideas with room for real barriers
- Pets and disability: Margot’s companionship story
- Autism-friendly haircuts: sensory adjustments and choice
- Disability support groups: peer experience and decisions
- Disenfranchised grief: recognising loss and accessible support
- Disability peer support: making room beyond the crisis
- Disability peer support: share experience and keep your choices
- Disability, death and grief: Tristram’s reflection
- Mental resilience and wellbeing: support without blame
- Disability and rejection: a personal reflection
- Independence and accepting help: Jo’s perspective on support
- Living with MS: Teisha’s account of change and connection
- Fatigue after stroke: Emma’s experience of daily life
Running a disability service · Business, workforce and compliance
- NDIS provider decisions: limits, frontline input and participant choice
- Fair Work’s disability sector inquiry: practical checks for providers
- The care economy: what alignment means for NDIS providers
- NDIS AI: practical trials, privacy checks and human review
- Leading through NDIS reform: practical lessons for providers
- Allied health and NDIS reform: planning for service changes
- NDIS AI summit 2026: the original announcement and current checks
- NDIS and AI: keep participant rights in provider technology decisions
- NDIS provider onboarding: agreements, schedules and consent
- NDIS sole trader requirements: checks before you start
- NDIS provider marketing: five ways to make your service easier to find
- Registering an NDIS provider: a business story and current checks
- NDIS invoice requirements: clear records and current pricing
- NDIS plan management marketing: connect with participants
- Starting a plan-management business: service and systems
- NDIS plan manager tools: portals, pricing and training
- NDIS plan manager guidelines: governance and invoice checks
- Working with NDIS participants: funding, registration and invoices
- NDIS invoices: clear records and fewer payment problems
- Suitable SDA housing: tenant choice and provider responsibilities
- Becoming a support worker: a career-change story
- NDIS provider leadership: responding to frustration constructively
- Provider digital stories: a historical blogcast about clearer choices
- NDIS marketplace barriers: a provider’s rollout perspective
- NDIS sole traders: Terri Grote’s marketplace experience
- NDIS workforce capability: valuing experienced support workers
- Australia’s disability-service market: reading a historical snapshot
- Disability-sector leadership: turning a vision into service
Running a disability service · Service quality and accessibility
- NDIS provider sustainability: quality, leadership and service continuity
- NDIS Commission priorities: registration, enforcement and governance
- Inclusive governance: hear people with intellectual disability directly
- Accessible provider websites: clear content for people and AI
- NDIS safeguarding benchmarks: questions for provider quality
- Culturally safe disability support: Yolŋu perspectives from East Arnhem Land
- NDIS provider quality and safety: the regulator’s strategy
- Make Your NDIS Website Easier to Use: Practical Accessibility Checks
- Disability support trends: revisiting six predictions
- Support work that follows the participant’s goals: Sandra’s tips
- Writing accessible content: practical website checks for providers
- Accessible content: why disability service websites need it
- Disability-led training: what Clare learned through theatre
- NDIS participant reviews: feedback with support and integrity
- Disability research with people: participation and impact
- Co-design in disability services: lessons from a hackathon
- Considering support work: skills, responsibilities and fit
- Accessible service information: help people choose disability support
- Disability co-design: make your service easier to use
- Participant-led service quality: lessons from the Q-Team
- How NDIS providers can respond to negative reviews and act on complaints
- What disability service users value: lessons from early Clickability reviews
- Accessible participant feedback: reviews and service quality
- NDIS provider board governance: lessons from an early seminar
Supports and therapies · Assistive technology and digital access
- Low-cost assistive technology: NDIS purchase and payment checks
- iPhone Live Voicemail: accessibility and provider calls
- NDIS iPad funding: check technology approval before buying
- Assistance dogs: Max’s story and what to check
- NDIS prosthetics and orthotics: plan for the device and ongoing support
- Digital assistive technology: start with the task you want to do
- NDIS assistance animals, therapy animals and pets
- Disability accessibility apps: the 2019 list in context
- NDIS assistive technology: choosing equipment and getting advice
- Plastic straw access and disability: exemptions and individual needs
- Choosing assistive technology: advice, peers and product trials
- Smartphone accessibility for blind people: features and funding checks
- Assistive technology options: questions before choosing
- Disability innovation: designing around one person’s need
- Assistive technology: matching a solution to your goal
- Assistive technology and choice: Susan’s family experience
- Cafe access with a walking aid: Tully’s everyday experience
Supports and therapies · Daily living and support work
- What does an NDIS support worker do? Tasks, boundaries and choice
- NDIS meal preparation and delivery: read the cost breakdown
- 21 support worker activities to try at home or online
- NDIS Cleaning Rates and Funding: What to Check Before Booking
- NDIS cleaning and gardening: check the task, funding and quote
- Cleaning or support work? Choose help around the tasks you need
- NDIS cleaning and gardening: check the support your home needs
- Home cleaning and COVID-19: read the early advice carefully
- NDIS cleaning priorities: tasks, products and personal preferences
- Choosing NDIS meal preparation: menus, storage and food costs
- Keep a support worker relationship working well over time
- NDIS goals and everyday support: Michael’s story
- Children’s daily routines: how occupational therapy can help
- Build a support worker team that fits your life
- NDIS transport funding: separate the support and travel costs
- NDIS daily living support: personal care and community access
- Accessible cooking: a simple soup recipe and support choices
- Finding support workers: how to build a reliable working relationship
- Josie’s story: family life and choosing good support
- Support work and companionship: connection with boundaries
- Disability morning routines: Tully’s account of the hidden effort
- Support worker or carer? Why the language matters
- What does a support worker do? Tasks, choice and expectations
- Support worker tips from a participant: respect, privacy and communication
Supports and therapies · Therapies, assessments and health
- Counsellor or psychologist for your child: needs, fit and funding
- Choosing an NDIS therapist or behaviour support practitioner
- NDIS occupational therapy: funding and choosing the right support
- Child development concerns: when to seek support
- When to Ask About Speech Pathology for Your Child or Teen
- NDIS supports for autism: checking your plan and choosing services
- Booking telehealth therapy: questions families can ask first
- VR therapy and NDIS funding: questions to ask before booking
- NDIS telehealth: choosing therapy that works for your family
- Adult autism and ADHD assessment: purpose, process and funding
- Occupational therapy driving assessment: what to ask before booking
- Occupational therapy assessment: prepare goals and useful evidence
- NDIS exercise physiology: goals, accreditation and funding checks
- Person-centred online therapy: choice, goals and privacy
- How to choose a physiotherapist for your NDIS goals
- Telehealth consultations: preparing for remote exercise support
- Exercise and Down syndrome: choose enjoyable, individual support
- What does an occupational therapist do? Everyday activities explained
- Neurofeedback for ADHD: read the claims and NDIS funding limits
- ADHD and sleep: questions about symptoms and treatment claims
- Children’s sensory needs: practical questions for occupational therapy
- Psychoeducational groups: questions to ask before joining
- Spinal cord injury rehabilitation: Anne’s journey home
- Positive behaviour support: needs, rights and safeguards
- Falls prevention: planning safe, individual support
- NDIS therapy and assessment: choosing the right support
- NDIS hydrotherapy: benefits, suitability and support
- Physical activity with disability: goals and individual guidance
- Choosing an early childhood intervention provider for your child
- Starting a new treatment: questions and informed choices
- NDIS animal supports: assistance animals and therapy explained
- Exercise and disability: Brodie’s personal progress
- Augmentative and alternative communication: being heard
- How to Find a Physiotherapist Who Listens to You
Understanding the NDIS · Access and planning
- New to the NDIS: a practical first 90 days with your plan
- NSW workers’ compensation changes and NDIS support
- NDIS autism eligibility: evidence and early childhood pathways
- NDIS psychosocial disability eligibility: recovery and support
- NDIS pre-planning help: questions before paying for a service
- Local area coordinators: support, planning and your choices
- NDIS planning evidence and decision reviews: choosing the route
- NDIS choice and control: a participant’s early perspective
Understanding the NDIS · Funding and budgets
- NDIS price guide 2026 to 2027: changes to check with providers
- What can NDIS funding be used for? Check before you buy
- NDIS price guide: check support items, limits and your plan
- NDIS funding examples: what to check before treating them as covered
- NDIS funding periods: plan around available amounts and dates
- What does the NDIS fund? Understanding the supports list
- NDIS funding categories: read them alongside current support rules
- NDIS funding crisis: practical steps when needs change
- NDIS funding crisis: prepare for unexpected support needs
- NDIS decision reviews: deadlines, evidence and next steps
- Understanding your NDIS plan: budgets and spending limits
- What happens to unused NDIS funding? Explain the barriers
- NDIS carer impact statement: describe support accurately
- Does NDIS pay for holidays? Separate support from travel costs
- NDIS budget categories: use your plan to check spending
- NDIS budget check: monitor your plan without spending to a target
- Track your NDIS budget before funding runs low
- Reasonable and necessary NDIS supports: what to check
- NDIS plan review: prepare evidence, preferences and questions
- NDIS goals: explain what matters and the support you need
- Unused NDIS funding: plan periods, new plans and next steps
- Centrelink and disability: finding current financial information
- NDIS transport funding and taxis: a historical family account
Understanding the NDIS · NDIS changes and reform
- NDIS 2031 modelling: what the conference projections can tell you
- DSC NDIS Conference 2026: sessions and reform takeaways
- Thriving Kids: family support and the early-childhood model
- Inside the NDIA: the 2026 reform and safeguarding discussion
- NDIS functional capacity assessments: the advisory group’s role
- NDIS legislation changes: reviewing the 2026 conference summary
- NDIS Budget 2026: the announcement and its rollout
- NDIS reform implementation: current changes and future stages
- NDIS changes 2026: what is in law and what starts later
- NDIS funding changes: reading budget forecasts in context
- NDIS new framework planning: the timetable and your current plan
- NDIS budget assessments: transparency and preparing your evidence
- NDIS funding debate: the 2024–25 budget result in context
- Thriving Kids and NDIS access: updating the original announcement
- NDIS sustainability proposals: understand the Grattan debate
- NDIS webinar recap: historical changes and today’s context
- NDIS Navigator specialties: what the Review recommended
- NDIS navigator proposals: what has changed since the Review?
- NDIS Act changes: read the 2024 announcement in context
- The 2024 NDIS federal budget: proposals and later changes
- NDIS Review final report: recommendations and what followed
- NDIS quarterly reports: reading the 2022–23 snapshot
- NDIS plan reviews: reassessments and decision reviews
- NDIS independent assessments: the abandoned 2020 proposal
- NDIS news, June 2020: a historical pricing and access snapshot
- NDIS and disability rights: revisiting an early reform vision
- NDIS expectations and reality: checking what your support offers
- NDIS rollout lessons: Jacqui’s six-year policy reflection
- Western Australia and the NDIS: understanding the transition
Understanding the NDIS · Plan management and self-management
- Self-managed, plan-managed or agency-managed NDIS funding?
- Managing NDIS paperwork: reduce the load and share the tasks
- What does an NDIS plan manager do? Invoices, reports and choice
- Questions to ask an NDIS plan manager before you sign up
- NDIS Plan Management: What Help You Get and What You Still Decide
- Protect your NDIS funds: check invoices and report concerns
- NDIS plan management options: agency, plan and self-managed
- Choosing a small plan manager: check the service behind the promise
- Plan management vs support coordination: who handles what?
- What should a plan manager do? Invoices, checks and choice
- Plan-management payments: revisiting real-time claims
- Compare NDIS plan managers: communication, costs and payment processes
- Why choose NDIS plan management? Compare the responsibilities
- NDIS participant portals: a historical update and today’s route
- Victoria ISP to NDIS: a historical financial transition FAQ
- Directing your own support: Jeff’s funding-management example
- Choosing NDIS management help: a historical provider guide
- Self-managed NDIS funding: choice, responsibility and help